Banana, Chocolate, Cranberry & Coconut Muffins

I have just joined the Chocolate Party! It is a great group of food bloggers who bake with chocolate and each month they decide on an extra compulsory ingredient. This month, it is cranberries.

I am on a mission to reduce my intake of sugar and that might seem a little contradictory with joining the Chocolate Party but I did say ‘reduce’ not ‘eliminate’. These muffins I made are completely without added sugar except for what is in the chocolate. I found the recipe at The Life of Clare blog and thought they mightn’t be sweet enough but was willing to give them a try. In fact, the bananas are enough and that makes these muffins sugarless apart from the chocolate content. How amazing is that? And they taste good!

You might have noticed that I am using a new recipe set up, Ziplist. If you click on Save in the recipe, you then create a free account. After that, each time you click on the save button, you add the recipe to your personal recipe box. You can also create a shopping list from the recipes in your box. And clip some coupons while you’re there. You can also use the print button to print the recipe and choose to include the photos or not. I have also added the nutritional information below the recipe.

I saw these muffins on Claire’s blog and was thinking of making them. I think chocolate and cranberries work really well together. I mark bark at Christmas time with white chocolate and cranberries and some nuts xx

I love that you are trying to cut down on sugar. And I agree, that there is no need to go without dessert. These muffins look great. Love your pics. I am new to the chocolate party….still thinking what to make this month.

Adorable! The muffins and their red-striped cups. Also, I think dark chocolate will fit perfectly into your plan of eating less sugar. (It’s actually on the cusp of being considered healthy.) *fingers crossed*

your photographs of these muffins are beautiful! and i love those muffin liners… they are so cute
i haven’t used gluten free flour before…can i replace that with regular flour or will that mess up the recipe?

What an intriguing combination of flavours – I would’ve never put the cranberries and banana together but it sounds delicious! I love that you wanted to reduce the sugar. Although most of the things I baked are totally bad for your health (I’m talking butter and sugar laden), I still reduce the amounts of sugar in every recipe when I bake. Your photos are gorgeous – I love the adorable muffin liners and the cupcake stand.

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